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While I have a CB radio in my car I almost never transmit, only rarely having anything to say. So it came as a shock when I tapped the push to talk key and watched the SWR meter light up to about 3.5 - yikes!
I wasn’t going to let that continue without trying to fix it and over the next few days considered various things that could cause a bad SWR reading. So I started with the simplest option; I found the manual and read up on recalibrating the radio. Once I got that far it took, oh, sixty seconds to run through the recalibration routine. The new SWR? About 1.2, a fine number!
I’m guessing some control got tapped at some point, and since I transmit so rarely it might have happened some time back.
(I'm posting this story to DreamWidth for a friend who's temporarily out of touch via phone.)
I wasn’t going to let that continue without trying to fix it and over the next few days considered various things that could cause a bad SWR reading. So I started with the simplest option; I found the manual and read up on recalibrating the radio. Once I got that far it took, oh, sixty seconds to run through the recalibration routine. The new SWR? About 1.2, a fine number!
I’m guessing some control got tapped at some point, and since I transmit so rarely it might have happened some time back.
(I'm posting this story to DreamWidth for a friend who's temporarily out of touch via phone.)
